This theme paper, released at the backdrop of “Energizing South 2016”, held from 22–23 August 2016 at Bengaluru, Karnataka, presents an overview of the present status of power sector in India, the future roadmap and challenges and opportunities in this sector. Additionally, it also explores the power landscape of in the southern states including Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Telengana.

The key highlights of this paper includes :

Energy market outlook – clean
energy playing a vital role

Dynamics of power supply and
demand: getting prepared to meet
price elasticity

Southern state initiatives starting to
enable power sectors grow including
renewables in a large way

Market expect the costs of
harnessing wind and solar to
drop sharply while steps for clean
thermal power are taken